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Miss Aline came in and stood shyly while Sir Bunny pointed out the advantages of his proposal the estates joined, the parish under control, and the family name changed by poll deed to Minto-Bunny-Bunny. "I am obliged for your thinking of me," said Miss Aline sweetly, "but for the present I have no intention of marrying."
When assessed upon the person, it is called a poll-tax, or capitation tax, being a certain sum on every poll, or head. But as persons ought generally to contribute to the public expenses according to their ability, taxes are more just and equal when laid upon the property of the citizens. Few poll-taxes are levied in this country.
I have paid no poll tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.
I met a rover of strange rig and miraculous fleetness, in rounding the headlands of Otranto, who seemed to have half a mind to follow the felucca in her path towards the Lagunes." "Did the sight warm thee at the soles of thy feet, Gino dear?" "There was not a turbaned head on his deck, but every sea-cap sat upon a well covered poll and a shorn chin.
"Because we are going to make a three days' trip of this, Poll, and women-folk would not feel comfortable with such a lot of mixed men," explained John, pulling his sister's hair, lovingly. "Well, Polly and I are as good riders as any one of you, and seeing it is our mine, we ought to have something to say about it," added Eleanor, poutingly.
He then noticed that Silent Poll was not among the rest; and he was unwilling to trust himself to the mercies of this creature. 'I shall not descend till the girl joins the rest; and he now stood in such a manner as to have a view of the robbers and the old woman, as well as of the tunnel's mouth. The chief shouted, and Silent Poll came forth with an extremely hang-dog expression.
"A crack o' the head, mother." "What have they done to my boy Robert?" "They've," he swung about humorously, weak as he was and throbbing with pain "they've let out some of your brandy, mother...got into my head." "Who've done it, my dear?" "They've done it, mother." "Oh, take care o' that nail at your foot; and oh, that beam to your poor poll poor soul! he's been and hurt himself again.
All persons, though United States officers, are liable to a poll tax by the States within which they reside. The lands of the United States are liable to the usual land tax, except in the new States, from whom agreements that they will not tax unsold lands are exacted when they are admitted into the Union.
'I say, Urb, blowed if this ain't our Poll parrot what we lost. Thank you very much, lidy, for bringin' 'im home to roost. The four turned swiftly. Two large and ragged boys were crouched amid the dark shadows of the stairs. They were much larger than Robert and Cyril, and one of them had snatched the Phoenix away and was holding it high above their heads.
"In my opinion," said Poll, who was growing crusty from always reading in the London Library, "chastity is nothing but ignorance a most discreditable state of mind. We should admit only the unchaste to our society. I vote that Castalia shall be our President." This was violently disputed. "It is as unfair to brand women with chastity as with unchastity," said Poll.
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